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Legal System 6
Judiciary
Term | Definition |
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Circuit Judge | The most senior inferior judge |
District Judge | Lowest level of professional judge |
Recorder | Part-time judge |
Justice of the Supreme Court | Most senior judges |
High Court Judge | AKA a Puisne judge |
Lord Justice of Appeal | CA judge |
Superior judges | All judges from High Court up |
CLSA 1990 as amended | Outlines qualifications for judges |
Judicial Appointments Commission | Selects judges |
Five | Qualities needed by a judge |
Judicial College | Oversees training of judges |
Retirement age for judges | 70 |
Bullying judge who was pressured to resign | Harman J |
Devised theory of separation of powers | Montesquieu |